Using masks to add the neck and ears

There are a few utilities that we have at our disposal that can make sculpting easier; one of these utilities is a mask. A mask can be applied to parts of a sculpture to prevent our brushstrokes from affecting the masked area. This is just like using masking tape in traditional painting or using a mask layer in digital painting software.

The simplest way to apply a mask is by using the Mask brush. Instead of pushing polygons around like a regular brush, the Mask brush allows us to paint a mask onto the surface of the sculpture. This will be helpful for creating the ears and the neck of our character.

Getting ready

We will be adding ears and a neck to the head model that we started in the Creating large forms of the head with the Grab brush section of this chapter. If you would rather start this section using our example, download and open the simpleCharacterHead_02_Start.blend file here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Sculpting-the...